How To Enable Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Card In Backtrack

[imported_danmc]

I'm a bit noob to linux/backtrack about 3 weeks in now. And I couldn't find a dedicated guide on how to enable this card, so when I stumbled across the answer I thought i'd share it. At the beginning I found a few of the guides a little hard to follow. So I've made this as easy to follow as I can. Hope it's of use. Sorry if it comes across a little patronising.


Open a console and type


cd /usr/src/drivers/ipw3945-1.2.0


Hit enter then type


load


Hit enter


Your Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG can now be found at eth1




For Those of you that have backtrack2 installed on your hdd. To save typing all that in every time you restart.



Open a console and type


alias 3945="cd /usr/src/drivers/ipw3945-1.2.0"


Hit enter


now all you have to do to enable your Intel® PRO/Wireless 3945ABG is type



3945

Hit enter


load


Hit enter


replace 3945 with whatever keyword you want as I only used it as an example

[slowz3r]

Maybe im missunderstanding what you are trying to solve, but wouldnt it just be easier to boot with bt irqpoll

[Eristic]

I think this is what he types in to load his card. So instead of typing all the commands, he makes it use a alias word. What does bt irqpoll do and when do you type it (before startx?)

[jay2005]

does the 3945abg card support injection???

[imported_danmc]

.....Nope

[theSnail]

i'm not sure that is the hardware not able to inject, but i think is that aireplay-ng that does not support injection on the ipw3945 hardware.

If i'm right, you can use "scapy" to inject manipulated packet, but it's harder to use !!!

Where there's life there's hope

[joek1010]

You can also just do this:
/sbin/ipw3945d

That will also load the drivers for your card.

For those interesting in packet injection, you may want to check this out: (forums.remote-exploit.org/showthread.php?t=6295&highlight=mac80211)
Check out the third link that he posted (I can't post links yet, not enough posts).

I haven't been able to get it to work yet, but it looks promising. I think the problem with packet injection is the intel drivers don't support it.

[shamanvirtuel]

in order to test injection

ifconfig eth0 up
iwconfig eth0 mode monitor
aireplay -9 eth0


will test injection but you need to have aircrack 0.9 suite ......

[purehate]

the intel drivers do NOT support injection..........

[alacityathome]

What am I missing here? In the Linux Distribution wifimay-0.4, it looks like they achieved injection. Refer to

http://www.seguridadwireless.net/for...ic,3323.0.html

Alacrity